Hey friend, for today's mini episode, I'm sharing a poem I wrote in June called "Simple ain't easy." You know how it is when you're explaining your creative dreams to someone and they give you that look? That "well, why don't you just do it then?" look. As if picking up a brush or opening a laptop was the hard part.

I've been thinking a lot lately about this gap between what looks simple from the outside and what actually unfolds when you're living the creative life. Because yes, the act itself (of putting paint to canvas, fingers to keys, voice to microphone) that part really is simple. But everything that happens around that moment? The voices, the bills, the doubt, the way the world tries to convince you that your art doesn't matter? That's where it gets complicated.

This poem came to me after a particularly frustrating week where I kept catching myself making excuses for not creating. And I realized I was treating "simple" and "easy" like they were the same thing. They're not.

So here's "Simple ain't easy," a reminder for all of us who know exactly what we want to create but somehow keep finding ourselves standing still.

Take a breath. Do the simple things. Even if Simple Ain’t Easy.

Chapters

00:00 - A Vulnerable Share From My Journal

01:36 - The Simple Dream and The World's Noise

02:28 - Remembering Your Destination

03:10 - A Call to Tell Your Story

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This is How We Create is produced by Martine Severin. This episode was edited by Daniel Espinosa.

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